Technological Escalation

A Technological Escalation is a competitive situation where parties in competition tend to employ continual technological improvements in their attempt to defeat each other.

• See: Widget (Economics), Arms Race, AI Arms Race, e-Mail Spam, Escalation.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/technological_escalation Retrieved:2015-5-31.
  • Technological escalation describes the situation where two parties in competition tend to employ continual technological improvements in their attempt to defeat each other. Technology is defined here as a creative invention, either in the form of an object or a methodology. An example is the mutual escalation seen between e-mail spammers and the programmers of spam filters and other anti-spam techniques. Although escalation is usually meant negatively, if two companies are in an escalating competition to produce the best widget, the consumer benefits because they get a choice between better and better widgets.

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